NOLS Grad Receives Rowell Award
Jimmy Chin, a 1998 NOLS instructor course graduate, has been awarded the inaugural Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. The Rowell Award honors an adventurer whose artistic passion illuminates the wild places of the world, and whose accomplishments significantly benefit both the environment and the people who inhabit these lands and regions.
Congratulations to Jimmy!
Download rowell_award_press_release.pdf
Bruce Palmer, NOLS marketing director
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